Sonali
#5,238 for girls in 2025, 24 births
- Peak · girls
- 2000 · 60 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,360since 1970
Sonali over time
Rank among girls' names. Sonali has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,238 | 24 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #4,326 | 32 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 |
| 2016 | #5,622 | 23 |
| 2015 | #6,977 | 17 |
| 2014 | #5,163 | 26 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 |
| 2012 | #4,121 | 36 |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,226 | 27 |
| 2008 | #4,882 | 30 |
| 2007 | #4,675 | 31 |
| 2006 | #3,919 | 38 |
| 2005 | #4,029 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #2,999 | 50 |
| 2002 | #3,014 | 48 |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 |
| 2000 | #2,508 | 60 |
| 1999 | #3,245 | 39 |
| 1998 | #2,929 | 44 |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 |
| 1996 | #3,302 | 35 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 |
| 1993 | #4,998 | 19 |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #5,060 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 |
| 1987 | #4,122 | 20 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 |
| 1984 | #7,398 | 8 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 |
| 1979 | #4,420 | 16 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #4,370 | 14 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sonali! It came in at #7,995, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sonali
- 929 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #5,238)
- 785 spots since 2020 (#4,453 → #5,238)
- 1,739 spots since 2015 (#6,977 → #5,238)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2000 at #2,508 (60 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 30,267 girls born in 2000 were named Sonali (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 66,969 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 30.1% of all girls named Sonali (410) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 104 | #4,079 (1978) | #5,820 |
| 1980s | 152 | #4,015 (1988) | #5,364 |
| 1990s | 291 | #2,733 (1997) | #4,012 |
| 2000s | 410 | #2,508 (2000) | #3,763 |
| 2010s | 249 | #3,999 (2011) | #5,494 |
| 2020s | 154 | #4,326 (2021) | #5,101 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sonali in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
More about 1970
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1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 349,629 of them was named Sonali, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,360 names at #7,995; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.